Albert F. King 1854-1945

Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982

Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Nature's Bounty:  Still Life Painting in Southwestern Pennsylvania at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, 2001

Canvas is lined. SURFACE: in generally good condition UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: intermittent inpainting along the edges; a repaired tear at bottom right--inpainted area, about 2 by 6 in. in rectangular shape (just under candlestick and mug); another inpainted area, just above lower edge, center, about 2 in. long (also looks like a repaired tear); a 2 inch area of inpainting (vertical) at lower right of violin; a few dashes of repaint at upper right of violin
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